Two suspects were taken into guardianship, one after a shootout, in a “combination- style” butchery last month that left six people dead in central California, including a youthful mama and her 10- month-old son, authorities blamed Friday. The suspects, linked in charging documents as Angel Uriarte, 35, and Noah Beard, 25, are known members of the Norteño gang, Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said during a news conference.
He said the January 16 firing was the likely result of a conflict with members of the Sureños, a rival gang. The suspects and members of the victims’ family have a long history of gang violence but the motive for the firing “is not exactly clear,” Boudreaux said at a news conference at the sheriff’s headquarters in Visalia. The six victims, including a teen mom and her baby, were killed on Jan. 16 in pastoral Goshen, a community of 3,000 in the San Joaquin Valley. Authorities said both suspects had been under around timepiece surveillance since Jan. 23 in a massive disquisition that crowned in Friday’s apprehensions and involved sheriff’s investigators, prosecutors, the civil Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Arms and Snares and other law enforcement agencies. Search clearances were served at locales in Goshen and Visalia, and about eight capture cells associated with the Nuestra Familia captivity gang were searched in five state incarcerations, Boudreaux said. He said sheriff’s authorities waited until they had DNA substantiation to make the apprehensions to bolster the case. No further details of the substantiation were handed in. A surveillance videotape released by authorities Friday showed a teenage girl running outdoors and placing a baby on the other side of a hedge, also jumping over it herself.
Authorities said Beard shot and killed the teen and baby, who were both set up dead in the road, shot in the reverse of the head. On Jan. 21, a firing at Monterey Park cotillion hall killed 11 and wounded nine. The marksman later killed himself. On Jan. 23, blowups at two Half Moon Bay granges killed seven and wounded one before the suspect was arrested.
